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While this news is not a deal breaker for our chances in Georgia, it means we've got to work harder. We have just had two days of early voting in Georgia and those numbers are not promising as reported by the AJC .
This should not be a damper but rather a wake up call that we need to volunteer in person if we are close by, help with phone calls if you are far away and donate donate donate if you can.
Please help me reach my goal of turning Georgia Peach to Blue.
Karen Handel grandstanded to say that the Dems were Grandstanding on asking for some concessions in early voting. Handel is the Georgia Secretary of State that has been very dogmatic in her role as the chief election official.
I believe that I accurately described Handel earlier in the week as a political hack.
Secretary Handel is extremely pleased with early voting turnout and how the overwhelming majority of Georgia's county election offices prepared for and managed the early voting process. Two million Georgians voted early, nearly 90 percent in person with photo ID. This historic turnout will ease pressures on the state's 3,000 precincts on Election Day. County election officials will now spend Saturday, Sunday and Monday making critical final preparations for Election Day, and the Secretary of State's office will deploy election monitors and technicians to assist them.
At the same time, Secretary Handel is disappointed that a handful of elected officials, political party organizations, activist groups and media outlets used this occasion to politicize the early voting process. Their failed attempts to find fault with the Secretary of State's role in election oversight through grandstanding, patently false allegations and biased reporting revealed their desire to create confusion and chaos among voters to further their political agendas.
Florida extended early voting hours through the weekend. We should thank Florida Governor Charlie Christ for being non-partisan in this decision. Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, had the same opportunity to do the right thing and she choose to instead act like a party hack.
When it comes to actions by elected officials and voting, you should always err on the side of making it easier for the voters to cast their ballot. Instead, Handel believes that extending early voting hours would be a logistical nightmare. Does she have any idea what Tuesday will be like?
I've heard numerous first hand accounts of the long lines in Georgia early voting places. For example, voters in Clayton County have had to wait in excess of three hours to count their vote. First, let me applaud these citizens for taking part in democracy. Waiting three hours for the right to vote should be commended.
However, three hours this week might turn into 10 or 12 hours on Tuesday. Well over 1 million voters in Georgia have voted early. I believe that extending voting hours would have been a way to encourage voter participation. Telling the voters that hours cannot be extended is tantamount to telling them that we don't care if everyone has the right to vote. Their is no valid reason for not extending early voting hours.
Hopefully, when Karen Handel comes up for re-election voters will remember that she denied them extended early voting.
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